Hi Nicol, I appreciate the suggestion, but to be honest it is far too simplistic to be a true flight simulator.
To begin with while it is true that a standard cockpit has many buttons and switches to raise/lower the flaps, to start and shut off the engines, to raise/lower the landing gear, whatever there is still plenty of manual control required by the flight stick and the peddles on the floor. Assuming the pilot isn't using the autopilot he or she will have to move the stick left/right to bank the plane in that direction, pull back the stick to gain altitude, and push the stick forward to dive. So point being if a flight simulation was to be at all realistic the game by rights should have joystick control and allow the blind gamer the ability to steer the plane and take off and land using his/her flight controller. The next issue is timing. In your suggestion a person has to tab around the screen looking for buttons. This is very slow and a bit tedious. A Sighed pilot can merely look at the buttons and press the one he or she needs. The way your suggestion works a blind gamer would have to tab around several times to get the right button which is much slower than just pressing the proper button. Therefore some sort of hot key would be the only way to give the player the same timing and control over the planes electronics as a real pilot would have. Finally, in your suggestion you mentioned using colored buttons like red, green, white, black, whatever. That might be fine if the game were designed for sighted gamers, but we aren't talking about sighted players. Most people on this list have little to no vision so colors don't mean a lot to them. It would make more sense to simply label the buttons Start Engines, Landing Gear Up, Landing Gear Down, Flaps Up, Flaps Down, or something like that. In other words give the buttons useful names rather than simply give them colors that have to be looked up in a manual. Cheers! --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
